# Map of NFL team loyalty **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-of-nfl-team-loyalty/341074 "2006-01-22T05:13:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-of-nfl-team-loyalty/341074/21 "2006-01-22T19:42:55Z")
nevermind. i’m a damned fool. but…our color…it sprawls!! ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-of-nfl-team-loyalty/341074/22 "2006-01-22T20:07:17Z")
I, for one, welcome our new feline overlords. There, I said it. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-of-nfl-team-loyalty/341074/23 "2006-01-22T20:14:02Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > I, for one, welcome our new feline overlords. > > There, I said it. color me the color of not being let down…whatever that color may be. as long as it’s not pink. i’m already a pinkish hue, thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-of-nfl-team-loyalty/341074/24 "2006-01-22T20:18:12Z")
Wouldn’t it be a light blue? ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-of-nfl-team-loyalty/341074/25 "2006-01-22T20:18:55Z")
Okay, I voted. If a little spot of the Giants’ or 49ers’ colors show up in Chicago, that’s me. ([Here’s the baseball map, btw.](http://www.commoncensus.org/sports_map.php?sport=2)) ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-of-nfl-team-loyalty/341074/26 "2006-01-22T20:19:34Z")
Looking at the map again, it appears to be more of a dark yellow. Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-of-nfl-team-loyalty/341074/27 "2006-01-22T20:21:07Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Jets fans probably don’t have a majority anywhere. It’s a little hard to tell since the colors are so close, but it seems there are a few small Jets enclaves in eastern Long Island, southern New York state, and Connecticut. However, that could be an artifact of not having had too many people vote yet. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-of-nfl-team-loyalty/341074/28 "2006-01-22T20:22:04Z")
Something tells me there are a few other artifacts at work, too. ---
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-of-nfl-team-loyalty/341074/29 "2006-01-23T18:18:38Z")
> [@Hooleehootoo](#): > > I would guess that Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Nebraska are Denver Bronco country. > > Utah shows a lot of 49’er loyalty. I believe this is the “Steve Young” effect. Young is a Mormon, the great-great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, born in SLC, played for BYU, etc. Before 1987, when he was at Tampa Bay, was Utah Buccaneer country? My impression from living in the Northern Rocky Mountains for many years that the Denver Bronco fans are outnumbered by the fans of anybody-that-beats-the-Broncos. There are a handful of Bronco fans here in Wyoming (and of people I know in Montana), but mostly there is a good amount of dislike. Your Utah impression may be right, but I never remember any Buccaneer gear back in the day. I think a little of the 49’er love is also a by-product of people who don’t like the Broncos. In general, though, the real passion around here is for college football. There is much more watercooler talk about Wyoming vs. Colorado State or AIr Force or BYU than any discussion of the NFL. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-of-nfl-team-loyalty/341074/30 "2006-01-23T18:33:45Z")
I have it on good authority from my brother-in-law’s father, who lives in Lima, OH, that an area radiating out from Findlay is now firmly Steeler’s country, since that’s Big Ben’s hometown. Was also told he didn’t start in high school because he was behind the coach’s son on the depth charts. Also, I’d question that most of rural Florida is still Dolphins country. It’s probably fairly well divided, somewhat by geography, between the Bucs, Fins and Jags, and further that the peninsula is split between the Cowboys and Bucs, with the Bucs hosting a number of ex-FSU players in their prime (Derrick Brooks for one) and Emmitt Smith hailing from Escambia. ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-of-nfl-team-loyalty/341074/31 "2006-01-23T21:54:25Z")
> [@Hooleehootoo](#): > > Michigan: would upper peninsula be for Lions or Packers or other? **Athena** ’s right, unfortunately. 😉 There’s a few Vikings fans around, too, like me. The Vikings are actually the second closest team to most of the U.P.- behind the Packers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-of-nfl-team-loyalty/341074.md?page=1)